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CONSTITUTION OF THE 

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University and Scheel Extension 



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By SETII T. STEWART, Sec'y. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

TIMOTHY DWIGHT, D. D., LLD., 

President, Yale University. 

FRANCIS L. PATTON, D. D., LL.D., 

President, Princeton University. 

SETH LOW, LL.D., 

President, Columbia College. 

W. T. HARRIS, LL.D., 

United States Commissioner of Education. 

NORMAN A. CALKINS, 

Superintendent, School Extension. 

SETH T. STEWART, 

General Secretary. 

P. O. Box 192, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



OFFICERS OF THE 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 



President : 



JAMES W. ALEXANDER, 

Princeton. 



Vice-Presidents 



ClIAUNCEY M. DEPEYV, 

Yale. 

CHARLES S. FAIRCHILD, 

Harvard. 

W. BAYARD CUTTING, 

Columbia. 
Treasurer : 

GEORGE FOSTER PEA BODY, 

16 and 18 Broad Street, New York City. 

Secretary : 

MATTHEW J. ELGAS, 

121 West 87th Street, New York City. 



CONSTITUTION 



UNIVERSITY AND SCHOOL EXTENSION. 



The design of the University and School Extension is to sup- 
plement and to strengthen the university and the school systems ; 
to increase the culture and to promote the interests of teachers as 
members of a profession ; and to advance and extend the knowl- 
edge of letters and of the arts and sciences. 

Its work shall be under the control of an Executive Committee, 
Boards of Directors, and faculties of University Extension and 
School Extension. 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 
The President of the Faculty of University Extension, the 
Superintendent, and the General Secretary, together with the Presi- 
dents of the four institutions represented in the first organization, 
if they consent to serve, and such others as they shall designate 
shall constitute the Executive Committee. This Committee shall 
organize Boards of Directors and auxiliary societies, for each of 
which it shall add special provisions to this Constitution ; but no 
change in any Board or Society once organized shall be effected 
without the consent of the same. The Executive Committee 
shall, also, determine the terms and conditions on which societies 
already in existence may become associated with the work of the 
University and School Extension, 



UNIVERSITY AND SCHOOL EXTENSION. 



The Executive Committee is authorized to construe and enforce 
the Constitution and to determine all questions of jurisdiction. It 
is authorized to further the objects to which reference has already 
been made. It shall have the title with full control of the prop- 
erty of the general Society until the National Board of Directors 
effects an incorporation, when the title to said property shall vest 
in said Board. The Executive Committee shall organize and shall 
be members of the National Board of Directors. 

PRESIDENT. 

The President shall be elected by the Faculty of the University 
Extension, each member being entitled to one vote, and no person 
shall be eligible who is not at the time of his election a President 
of some university or college represented in the Faculty. He shall 
be elected every second year, in the month of June, the first elec- 
tion dating from June, 1889, and his term of office shall begin the 
first of September following. No President, after the first, shall 
hold office during two consecutive terms. 

SUPERINTENDENT. 

The Superintendent shall be elected by the Faculty of the 
School Extension, each member being entitled to one vote, and no 
person shall be eligible who is not at the time of his election a Super- 
intendent or a Principal. He shall be elected every second year, 
in the month of June, the first election dating from June, 1890, 
and his term shall begin the first of September following. No 
superintendent, after the first, shall hold office for two consecutive 
terms. 



CONSTITUTION. 



GENERAL SECRETARY. 

The General Secretary shall be appointed by the President 
and the Superintendent, and he shall hold office during good 
behavior. He shall direct the correspondence of the University 
and School Extension, shall prepare and issue the notices, shall 
have charge of all necessary printing of the General Society, and 
shall determine for all local and auxiliary societies the forms of 
required printing. He shall serve as Secretary to the National 
Board of Directors, and to the Faculties. He may appoint assist- 
ant secretaries, who shall be subject to his directions, and who shall 
hold office by appointment from year to year ; but after service 
for three successive years, they may hold office during good 
behavior. In case of vacancy in the office of General Secretary, 
the position shall be filled by the appointment of one of the assist- 
ant secretaries. 

FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION. 

The courses of study, the examinations, the certificates, and 
the diplomas in subjects generally taught in the colleges, shall 
be in the exclusive control of the Faculty of the University 
Extension. 

The Faculty of the University Extension shall consist of a 
president and professors appointed by him from the universities 
and colleges in the several States, on the nomination of their 
respective presidents, and, if deemed expedient, from among promi- 
nent specialists not professors of colleges. The four institutions 
represented in the first organization of the University Extension 
shall be entitled to equal representation, and each State shall be 
entitled to at least one member in the Faculty. 



University and School extension. 



The members of this Faculty shall be appointed in the month 
of July for the term of two years, beginning the first of September. 
After two years of service, appointments may be made permanent, 
provided, however, that professors may remain members of the 
Faculty of University Extension, only so long as actively connected 
with their respective colleges. 

FACULTY OF THE SCHOOL EXTENSION. 

The courses of study, the examinations, the certificates, and 
the diplomas in subjects generally taught in the schools shall be in 
exclusive control of the Faculty of the School Extension. 

The Faculty of the School Extension shall consist of a Super- 
intendent and members appointed by him from the number of 
superintendents, principals, and teachers in the different States, 
each State being entitled to at least one representative in the 
Faculty. 

The members of this Faculty shall be appointed in the month 
of July, for the term of one year, beginning the first of September. 
After two years of service, if reappointed, they may remain in the 
Faculty while connected with school work. 

MEMBERS. 

Any approved person, on payment of the required registration 
fee, may become a member of the University and School Exten- 
sion, except that, to be registered in the University Extension 
courses other than preparatory, the applicant for membership must 
be not less than twenty years of age, if male, and not less than 
eighteen years of age, if female. The name of any member may 
at any time for cause be stricken from the roll by a two-thirds 



CONSTITUTION. 



vote of the officers of the local, State, or National Board; and, in 
general, any appointing, electing, or organizing body may at any 
time for cause, after due hearing, rescind its action and thus remove 
any appointee or officer, or disband any Board or Society under its 
jurisdiction. 

FUNDS. 

Each Board or Society shall control its own funds, shall by a 
two-thirds vote of its Board of Directors designate a bank or trust 
company as a depository of the same in which all moneys received 
shall be promptly deposited, shall incur no liability beyond these 
funds, and shall alone be responsible for its obligations. Unex- 
pended final balances of any disbanded organization shall vest in 
the Board of Directors under whose auspices the organization was 
formed. Each Board of Officers shall by a two-thirds vote deter- 
mine the conditions under which funds or other property exceed- 
ing one thousand dollars in value, shall be withdrawn, expended, 
or otherwise transferred. 

FEES. 

The registration, class, and lecture fees shall be received by 
the Secretary of the Board or Society under whose auspices the 
lessons or lectures are given. The registration fee shall be deter- 
mined by the Executive Committee, which is a part of the National 
Board. One-half of said fee shall belong to the local Board, if 
any exist, and the remainder shall be forwarded by the officer in 
possession of the money on or before the first day of October, 
January, April, and July to the Secretary of the State Board of 
Directors or to the General Secretary. The class and the lecture 
fees shall be determined by the Executive Committee of the Board 



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or Society under whose auspices the lessons or lectures are given. 
All other fees, including correspondence class fees, correspondence 
lecture fees, library fees, examination fees, and certificate fees, 
shall be determined and received by the Executive Committee, 
which is a part of the National Board of Directors. No class, 
lecture, or other fee shall be received by any Board or Society from 
any person not provided with the member's receipt for a given 
year, signed by the Secretary of the local, State or National Board, 
certifying the payment of the registration fee. 



REPORTS. 

In the month of March, the Executive Committee of each 
Auxiliary Society shall send to the President of the Board of 
Directors three copies of its annual report, and the Executive Com- 
mittees of the local Boards of Directors shall send to the Presi- 
dent of the State Board two copies of each of said reports and 
two copies of its own annual report ; and the Ex ecutive Com- 
mittee of the State Board shall send to the President of the National 
Board, a copy of its report, which shall include one copy of each 
of the other reports to which reference has been made. 



BY-LAWS. 

The Executive Committee of the National Board, the Boards 
of Directors, the Faculties, and the Auxiliary Societies may make 
and may at any time change their own By-Laws concerning mat- 
ters not especially provided for in this Constitution. 



CONSTITUTION. 



AMENDMENTS. 

This Constitution may be changed by a two-thirds vote of the 
members of each of the Faculties and of the Boards of Directors 
affected by said amendment. The amendments must be proposed 
by the Executive Committee of the General Society and by the 
Faculties. In counting the votes of Directors, the votes of the 
members of each shall have a value proportionate to the number 
of members individually registered in the University and School 
Extension under the jurisdiction of the respective Boards. 



CONSTITUTION. 



CONSTITUTION 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 



The Board of Directors of the University and School 
Extension is organized under the general Constitution of the 
Extension, to which is added as a part of the same this Con- 
stitution. 

The immediate design of this Board shall be to supplement and 
to strengthen the university and the school systems. It shall 
undertake to accomplish this object by planting and fostering the 
work of University and School Extension by the following means: 
i. Holding public meetings in the interest of the cause; 2. Organ- 
izing the auxiliary societies provided by the Constitution; 3. 
Encouraging organized societies to pursue the work; 4. Instituting 
systems of occasional class work; 5. Establishing systems of 
occasional lectures; 6. Encouraging citizens to become patrons of 
some department of learning by making themselves pecuniarily 
responsible for courses of lessons or of lectures; 7. Encouraging 
citizens to become patrons of the work in general. 

The Board being duly incorporated shall be a self perpetu- 
ating body with power to increase or decrease the number of its 
members. 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 



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The power to increase or decrease the number of members of 
the Board shall not affect the tenure of resident members of the 
State or National Boards of Directors, who shall be members of 
the local Board, as shall also be the Secretary appointed by the 
State or General Secretary. 

Advisory members of the Board may be elected by the Board, 
but life and honorary members of the Extension may be created 
only in accordance with terms named by the Executive Com 
mittee of the National Board. 

The officers of the Board shall be a President, two or three 
Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer, and the Secretary. In addition, 
there may be, if desired, a Recording Secretary. The election of 
officers and members of the Board shall take place every second 
year in the month of April, the term beginning the first day of May. 

The Board of Directors shall act as a Board of Trustees, and 
as such shall have the title to its property with the ordinary rights 
and duties of trustees. 

It shall be the duty of the Board to further all the work 
of the University and School Extension. It shall have control of 
the class and lecture systems in its jurisdiction. 

The work in the class and lecture systems adopted or estab- 
lished by the Board of Directors shall be exclusively prescribed by 
the faculties ; and the workers shall by preference be members 
of the faculties, or they shall be persons authorized by the State 
or National Board under a system approved by the respective 
faculties. The class and the lecture systems shall, as nearly as 
practicable, follow in time and topic any schedules issued by 
the Executive Committee which is a part of the National Board. 



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The Board of Directors shall retain control of its lecture 
system, but it may delegate to auxiliary societies authorized by 
the Constitution the establishment of class systems. 

The Secretary shall receive all fees. He shall issue all 
receipts and certificates of membership. He shall distribute to 
the members of the Extension the circulars, schedules, and notices 
issued by the State or the General Secretary. The cost of circulars 
thus distributed shall be borne by the Board of Directors. On or 
before the first day of March, one-tenth of all donations or endow- 
ments received, without restriction to the contrary, shall be set 
apart for the uses of the State or National Board. 



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BY-LAWS 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 



ARTICLE I. 



MEETINGS. 



The regular meetings of the Board of Directors shall be held 
on the third Thursday of each month, commencing in September and 
ending in May. The meetings shall begin at 4 P. M., and continue 
not later than 5 130 P. M. Special meetings may be called by order 
of the President, or the Board may adjourn to meet at any time. 

The place of meeting shall be designated by the Board ; but 
in case of special meetings any place within the City of New York 
may be named by order of the President. 

ARTICLE II. 

OFFICERS. 

Section i. The officers shall be a President, three Vice-Presi- 
dents, a Treasurer, and the Secretary. The President and Vice- 
Presidents shall as nearly as possible be graduates of the Univer- 
sities represented in the organization of the University and School 
Extension. 



l6 BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 

Sec. 2. The President shall be the presiding officer, and shall 
appoint all Standing Committees. He shall appoint all special 
committees, unless provision to the contrary is made by the Board. 
He may also reorganize any committee in the event of a vacancy 
in said committee. 

Sec. 3. The Vice-President in the order elected shall be 
acting President in the absence of the President. 

Sec. 4. The Treasurer shall be the custodian of all of the 
funds belonging to the Board, and shall hold the same subject to the 
order of the Board. 

Sec. 5. The Secretary shall receive all fees. He shall issue 
all notices, tickets of membership, etc., and shall conduct the 
correspondence required by the Board. 

ARTICLE III. 

COMMITTEES. 

Section, i. The Standing Committees shall be the following: 
1. Rules and Regulations; 2. Ways and Means; 3. Members and 
Meetings; 4. University Extension; 5. School Extension; 6. 
Organization; 7. Auditing and Printing. The Committees shall 
be announced at the regular meeting held in May of each year. 
Special Committees may be appointed at any time and in any 
manner indicated by the Board. Each committee shall keep a 
record of its proceedings and report the same to the Board. All 
matters of business shall be passed upon by the Board before the 
same shall be binding upon the Board. 

Sec. 2. The Committee on Rules and Regulations shall con- 
sist of three members. It shall report on all proposed changes in 



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the By laws, and it may offer from time to time for incorporation 
in the By-laws such proposed rules and regulations to govern the 
action of the Board and its committees in the transaction of 
business as it may deem advisable. 

Sec. 3. The Committee on Ways and Means shall consist of 
seven members. 

This committee shall devise and execute plans for securing 
funds from general patrons of the work. It shall report on the 
apportionment of the funds of the Board for general purposes and 
for the purposes of the several committees. 

This committee shall be the financial adviser of the Board, 
and it shall also have general supervision of the property of 
the Board. 

The Treasurer shall be a member of the Committee on Ways 
and Means. 

Sec. 4. The Committee on Members and Meetings shall con- 
sist of five members. It shall report on all nominations for 
membership in the Board. The report, however, shall not be 
required within a month after the nomination. If two members 
of the committee oppose any nominee, the committee shall not 
recommend said nominee for membership in the Board. 

The Advisory Members of the Board shall also be elected 
only on recommendation of this committee. 

The active members of the Board shall be limited to twenty- 
one in number. 

The name of any member of the Board may on the unanimous 
recommendation of the Committee on Membership be stricken 
from the roll by vote of the Board for continued absence unex- 
cused by the Board, or, after due hearing, for other cause. 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 



This committee shall be charged with the duty of propos- 
ing and securing new fields of Extension work with the view of 
securing additional student members of the Extension. It shall 
also suggest times and places for meetings of student members. 

Sec 5. The Committee on University Extension shall consist 
of seven members. It shall have charge of all matters pertaining 
to the formation of systems and courses of lessons and lectures in 
the work of University Extension. It shall avoid as far as advisable 
work that is miscellaneous in character. It shall proceed on the 
theory of a thoroughly organized and well appointed institution of 
learning, the work being only less frequent than in the universities. 
This committee shall be charged with the duty of securing 
patrons for special lines of university work. 

Sec. 6. The Committee on School Extension shall consist of 
seven members. It shall have charge of all matters pertaining to 
the formation of systems and courses of lessons and lectures in the 
work of School Extension. It also shall avoid as far as advisable 
work that is miscellaneous in character, and proceed on the same 
theory as the Committee on University Extension. This committee 
shall be charged with the duty of securing patrons for special lines 
of school work. 

Sec. 7. The Committee on Organization shall consist of five 
members, and it shall have charge of all matters pertaining to the 
organization of auxiliary societies authorized by the Constitution, 
and it may also co-operate with the Executive Committee of 
the National Board in forming organizations for other parts of the 
country. 

Sec 8. The Committee on Auditing and Printing shall consist 
of three members. It shall authorize all the printing required, 
and shall audit all bills before payment is made. 



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ARTICLE IV. 

ORDER OF BUSINESS. 

The order of business at any regular meeting shall be as fol- 
lows : i. Call of the Roll ; 2. Reading the Minutes; 3. Reports of 
Standing Committees in order named ; 4. Reports of Special Com- 
mittees ; 5. Unfinished Business ; 6. Miscellaneous Business. 

ARTICLE V. 

ELECTIONS. 

The election of officers shall take place at the regular meet- 
ing held in the month of April of every second year. Election 
to membership in the Board may take place at any regular meet- 
ing of the Board, nomination having been made in open Board at 
least one month preceding the time of election. No election, 
however, may be made without the recommendation of the Com- 
mittee on Membership. The names of persons approved by said 
committee shall be sent to members together with the notice of 
the meeting at which the election may take place. All elections 
shall be made by printed or written ballot. Five opposing bal- 
lots shall be sufficient to prevent an election, and no name may be 
twice presented within a period of six months. 

ARTICLE VI. 

AMENDMENTS. 

These By-Laws may be amended at any time by a two-thirds 
vote of all the members of the Board, but one month's written 
notice shall have been given in open Board, and a notice of the 
proposed amendment shall be sent with the call for the meeting. 
The report of the Committee on Rules and Regulations shall be 
read before the voting on the proposed amendment begins. 



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